Presented on Friday, November 30, 2012 in Cowles Hall on the Elmira College Campus. Remarks on the prickly relationship between Samuel L. Clemens and Theodore Roosevelt through two decades when their lives overlapped and modern America was formed.
Philip McFarland is the author of two works of fiction and six of non-fiction, including Hawthorne in Concord and Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe. His most recent book is Mark Twain and the Colonel: Samuel L. Clemens, Theodore Roosevelt, and the Arrival of a New Century (2012).